September 13, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — America's loose "honor system" in voting is no longer viable, assuming it ever was. For decades we joked about the cemetery precincts in Chicago and elsewhere, and how statewide elections in Illinois were basically a battle between the elder Mayor Daley, a Democrat, and the downstate Republicans as to who could do the best job of fictionalizing the vote count. But they were seen as anomalies... (more)

September 13, 2012

ALAN KEYES — "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." (Thomas Jefferson)... (more)

September 13, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — A coherent philosophy or ideology must be true to the world view upon which it is based. When a philosophy or ideology borrows from two contradictory world views in order to sustain its position, it is intellectually decadent. Such is the sorry case of pro-abortion ideologues. Their sole allegiance is to the defense of abortion... (more)

September 13, 2012

RAMESH PONNURU — The media, this time the Washington Post, are again tackling the issue of Obama's opposition, as a state legislator, to a bill protecting infants who survive abortions... (more)

September 13, 2012

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — When he chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney won the trust of many conservatives, who thought Ryan would push the moderate Romney to the right. But that calculation overlooked the deference a running mate traditionally pays to a presidential candidate... (more)

September 13, 2012

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Missouri lawmakers have enacted new religious exemptions from insurance coverage of birth control by overriding a gubernatorial veto. The vote Wednesday appeared to mark the first time a state has directly rebutted a policy by President Barack Obama's administration requiring insurers to cover contraception... (more)

September 13, 2012

LONDON DAILY MAIL — U.S. officials say the Pentagon is positioning two warships near the Libyan coast following a bloody attack on the U.S. consulate there that left American ambassador Christopher Stevens, two marines and a communications officer dead... (more)

September 13, 2012

NEWSMAX — GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is running a poor campaign against a weak incumbent and is losing, longtime Democratic political operative and pollster Pat Caddell said in an appearance on the Fox News web show "Campaign Insiders"... (more)

September 13, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — Don't even tell me about a big tent. I don't want to hear about it. I know it's the most important presidential election year in American history. I know defeating Barack Obama is the highest of priorities. I know we're all supposed to stick together and speak no evil of those who are part of the anti-Obama coalition... (more)

September 13, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis walks, talks and barks like a rootsy Occupy Wall Street activist. But this Big Labor loudmouth who's leading the abandonment of nearly 400,000 schoolchildren in the Windy City is just another power-grabbing union fat cat... (more)

September 13, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Congress today was told that the Department of Homeland Security hasn't identified an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, event as a serious national security threat to the nation's grid system even though testimony revealed it could making living in the United States "unsustainable" for 70 to 90 percent of the population... (more)

September 12, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — A prominent member of Chicago's homosexual community claims Barack Obama's participation in the "gay" bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House... (more)

September 12, 2012

DAILY CALLER — A longtime professor and one-time interim dean of the University of Chicago Law School told The Daily Caller that Barack Obama was never offered tenure, despite the assertions of a New York Times reporter who covers the president and the first family... (more)

September 12, 2012

DAILY CALLER — Former deputy national security adviser Elliot Abrams and renowned Middle East scholar Barry Rubin lambasted the U.S. Embassy in Cairo's response to Tuesday's attack on it by Egyptian protesters... (more)

September 12, 2012

BRETT M. DECKER — Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the popular senior judicial analyst for the Fox News Channel and the former host of "FreedomWatch" on Fox Business Network. The youngest judge with life tenure in the history of New Jersey's Superior Court, he presided over more than 150 jury trials between 1987 and 1995... (more)

September 11, 2012

JIM KOURI — Each year on September 11, many police officers and security managers remember the contributions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Counterterrorism Chief, the late John P. O'Neill. And Sept. 11, 2012 will be no different... (more)

September 11, 2012

TRUTH DIVE — President Barack Obama raised more money than Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney in August. Obama's reelection campaign said that, along with the Democratic National Committee, it raised 114 million dollars in August, which is slightly more than the 112 million dollars Romney raised in conjunction with the Republican National Committee... (more)

September 10, 2012

STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — I'm deeply sympathetic to those millions of conservatives who feel they have "no choice" but to vote for Mitt Romney this November. I appreciate their view and wouldn't disparage anyone who feels as they do... (more)

September 10, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The political conventions do not appear to have changed many minds. The Democrats -- having gathered after Labor Day when Americans were back to the normal routines -- picked up slightly more momentum than did the Republicans -- who met during the prior week just as many voters were getting in their last vacation time at the beach (or wherever)... (more)

September 10, 2012

ALAN KEYES — "In every important respect, Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election was a victory for racism. First, there was the racist claim that his skin color made his election somehow significant for black Americans with whom he otherwise shares no common moral or historical heritage... (more)